The Sacred Mushroom And The Cross: A Study Of The Nature And Origins Of Christianity Within The Fertility Cults Of The Ancient Near East Download Free (EPUB, PDF)

                
              
The Sacred Mushroom And The Cross: A Study Of The Nature And Origins Of Christianity Within The Fertility Cults Of The Ancient Near East Download Free (EPUB, PDF)
Where did God come from? What do the bible stories really tell us? Who or what was Jesus Christ? This book challenges everything we think we know about the nature of religion. • The ancient fertility cult at the heart of Christianity • The living power of cultic rites and symbols • The sacred mushroom as the emblem and embodiment of divinity • The secret meaning of biblical myths • The language of religion that links us to our ancestors The Sacred Mushroom and the Cross sets out John Allegro's quest through a family tree of languages to find the truth about where Christianity came from.
Paperback: 416 pages
Publisher: Gnostic Media Research & Publishing; Anniversary edition (November 12, 2009)
Language: English
ISBN-10: 0982556276
ISBN-13: 978-0982556276
Product Dimensions:  6 x 0.9 x 9 inches
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It has been slow going as I've been reading The Sacred Mushroom & The Cross but I'm ready now to give my appraisal of the basic thesis. Which is to say, I don't have a clue. Let me recap.John Allegro, the author, makes the argument that Christianity got its start as a subterfuge used by ancient Jews to hide their true religion from the Romans. He argues that they created an imaginary fertility cult based around the usage of the amanita muscaria, or "magic" mushroom. Then, by an ironic twist, the "fake" religion caught on and took on a life of its own. I think this quote does a good job of summing this up:"The whole point of a mystery cult was that few people knew its secret doctrines. So far as possible, the initiates did not commit their special knowledge to writing. . . . When such special instruction was committed to writing, care would be taken that it should be read only by members of the sect. This could be done by using a special code or cypher, as in the case with certain of the Dead Sea Scrolls. However, discovery of such obviously coded material on a person would render him suspect to the authorities. Another way of passing information was to conceal the message, incantations, or special names within a document ostensibly concerned with a quite different subject."Plant mythology, known for thousands of years over the whole of the ancient world, provided the New Testament cryptographers their 'cover.' . . . Those most deceived appear to have been the sect who took over the name of "Christian" and who formed the basis of the Church, the history of which forms no part of the present study."So I repeat: I don't have a clue. The information Allegro presents seems well researched but I have a couple problems with it.
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